George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.

For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.

What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.